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deercountry2021-12-16 08:50 pm
arclightning) wrote in deercountry2021-12-16 08:50 pm
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it's the solstice
Who: Mako, Wu, & close CR
What: They might be in a different world, but the solstice is the solstice, and that means it's time to feed everyone you care about, if you're Mako
When: Night of December 21st
Where: Mako and Wu's loft above the Raccoon Room
Content warnings: Sadness from potential memory-share stuff, homesickness, mentions of Mako and Bo's dead parents
© TESSISAMESS
If you have close CR with Mako or Wu, in the days leading up to the Winter Solstice—December 21st—you may have gotten a small text invite in your inbox. A few simple lines inviting you to the Raccoon Room on the night of the 21st for dinner "because it's the solstice." Normally the Raccoon Room is closed early in the week, but on the 21st they've opened it up.
They're actually having people over in the loft above the Raccoon Room, and their living space is decked out in lanterns and candles to keep out the long darkness. Snow falls quietly outside, but in here it's warm and it smells like ginger and pepper. Wu's put on a few scratchy records in the background. Here and there, Winter Mournings are hung, not quite out of reach. It's very easy to accidentally or purposefully touch one.
If anyone comes in early enough, Mako is still at the counter with his sleeves rolled up, rolling dumplings, covered in rice flour. Maybe help him cook? He's looking better than he was early in the month: his skin is the correct pallor without that odd gray cast, and there's no smoke rolling off his body, so that... has to be good!
For the later arrivals, Mako's made dinner, which means hot tangyuan in gingery broth, an entire bowl of mushroom noodles for sharing, and a simmering pot of broth for people to cook things in, as well as a lot of a tangy sauce that Mako gets kind of cagey about when people try. Sit down, enjoy some hot pot! It's a time to be together, after all.
[ ooc: tag around, top-level, have a good time! ]
What: They might be in a different world, but the solstice is the solstice, and that means it's time to feed everyone you care about, if you're Mako
When: Night of December 21st
Where: Mako and Wu's loft above the Raccoon Room
Content warnings: Sadness from potential memory-share stuff, homesickness, mentions of Mako and Bo's dead parents
If you have close CR with Mako or Wu, in the days leading up to the Winter Solstice—December 21st—you may have gotten a small text invite in your inbox. A few simple lines inviting you to the Raccoon Room on the night of the 21st for dinner "because it's the solstice." Normally the Raccoon Room is closed early in the week, but on the 21st they've opened it up.
They're actually having people over in the loft above the Raccoon Room, and their living space is decked out in lanterns and candles to keep out the long darkness. Snow falls quietly outside, but in here it's warm and it smells like ginger and pepper. Wu's put on a few scratchy records in the background. Here and there, Winter Mournings are hung, not quite out of reach. It's very easy to accidentally or purposefully touch one.
If anyone comes in early enough, Mako is still at the counter with his sleeves rolled up, rolling dumplings, covered in rice flour. Maybe help him cook? He's looking better than he was early in the month: his skin is the correct pallor without that odd gray cast, and there's no smoke rolling off his body, so that... has to be good!
For the later arrivals, Mako's made dinner, which means hot tangyuan in gingery broth, an entire bowl of mushroom noodles for sharing, and a simmering pot of broth for people to cook things in, as well as a lot of a tangy sauce that Mako gets kind of cagey about when people try. Sit down, enjoy some hot pot! It's a time to be together, after all.
[ ooc: tag around, top-level, have a good time! ]
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...She is beauty. She is grace.
She quickly slurps up the rest of the broth up and gives a nervous laugh.]
Uh- Sorry. Family?
I mean it's hard to say really. There are a lot of people I'd love to have here... My dad or my sister for one.
...I guess if it's possible to get back those we've lost it would be... It would be great to get a chance to see my mom again.
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Never change, Ruby. ]
I know the feeling. Mom is probably who I'd want here, if I could have anybody. This is mostly her recipes. Or, you know. Close as I could get.
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She blinks and smiles as Mako says that.]
It's always tough when they aren't around, huh? Bolin mentioned she hasn't been a part of your guys' life for a long time. It's- Cute-Good-nice to see you're still using her recipes.
They're delicious, by the way.
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[ Are Mako's cheeks flushed? No, definitely a trick of the light FOR SURE. ]
Thanks. Yeah, she... both of them, uh. Died. When I was eight, so. It's been a while.
This is assuming nothing horrible would happen to them. You know, just... for here, tonight, and not... getting tortured like the rest of us.
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Ruby gives a little nod at that.]
Yeah... I was about four or five when I lost my mom. So I do get it-
Exactly. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to them. Just a chance to talk. Let her know what I've been up to and that I'm alright.
...And that I miss her. You know?
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[ Hadn't even thought about that, but Mako has to bite down on his words because his voice is a little rough, a little raw around the edges. He still feels sort of oversensitive, like skin after a fever: like the slightest little brush of too much feeling will knock him over. He hates it, but he's here and it's the solstice, so. ]
That would be ideal, wouldn't it? Just... a chance to talk, just for a little bit. Lot of people would jump at that chance, I bet. Gets rid of some of the guilt of wishing they were here with us.
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It would. I can't see it happening because it's... Well you know, this place. But it's a nice thought.
I don't know... I used to visit my mom's grave before I left home- and then ended up in the dream. But it- Well it helped to kind of talk to her. It's not really the same but I've tried doing it in either spots.
...Maybe a place like that would be good here. Even if it's not actually them.
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[ That is a though. Mako sits with that for a moment, contemplating. ]
That's something. It wouldn't feel, I don't know. Stupid, talking to air, knowing they can't hear you?
[ He could make something like that, is the thing. He and Bolin have made so many little rituals over the years to honor their parents, whose bodies they don't have and never will, whose final resting place is an unknown. Maybe it wouldn't feel stupid. Maybe it would be what people need, a place to sit with that feels like home. ]
...how did it help you, exactly? She couldn't hear you. Was it... just the talking?
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[Her foot taps against the floor as she contemplates how to talk about this.]
It didn't for me at least. I mean it's not going to be everyone's thing. People kind of let things out in different ways. you know?
[She gives a little nod.]
Yeah. But it was kind of different, I guess. It felt like she was there and listening, you know? Like I could just get things off my chest that I felt like I knew she'd understand.
It made me feel like she was still apart of my life I guess.
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[ Mako rushes through those words, realizing that he kind of just called her tradition stupid and that's not at all what he meant. He hates words sometimes, imperfect things that they are. He bites down on the rest of them, waits, and starts again, watching Ruby across the little table. ]
This, uh. This party. This... whole thing, is...part of something Bolin and I do to remember them. Our parents. We do this, and we light up lanterns for them, let them float on the water. Kind of feels the same.
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Oh-
Didn't mean to get all somber there.
It is kind of the same though? I'm sure they'd be thrilled to see you both aren't alone too. That you've made your own sort of family in your own way, huh?
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